Transparency executive: Hungary has a Patyomkin democracy | Mandarin
“Any new institution created by the government will necessarily be part of the NER’s power machine,” he notes in relation to the new organization called the Integrity Authority.
What can the government’s anti-corruption measures be enough for? published by Péter Martin József, the executive director of Transparency International Hungary, published under the title a Hungarian Orange.
“The Captive State”
According to the executive director, the leadership of the majority of institutions in Hungary has been occupied by actors loyal to the two-thirds power in the past decade, and the rest have been terminated or vacated.
The fall of the state was completed by the middle of the decade, and for years there was only one thing that stood out: the court system
– can be read in the article.
NER machine
The head of Hungarian Transparency also points out that, according to him, the income of the Court is in the greatest danger, since the decisions of the country’s number one adjudicating forum have a fundamental influence on adjudication.
“...any new institution created by the government will necessarily be part of the power machinery of the NER“
– notes Péter József Martin in relation to the new organization called the Integrity Authority, which will primarily be responsible for the proper use of EU funds.
The EU is late
According to the executive director, for a decade anyway, the EU idly watched the systemic violation of the rule of law in some communities, primarily in Poland and Hungary, “and as a result corruption is at its peak”. He believes that the EU is extremely late when it tries to act now to save what can still be saved.
According to Péter József Martin, the big question is whether the Integrity Authority will really be independent.
Full length article published on Magyar Narancs by clicking here you can read.
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